An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist
since 2005, Grammy-winner Gustavo Dudamel
has numerous recordings on the label, as well as
many video/DVD releases that capture the
excitement of significant moments of his musical life.
He is one of the most decorated conductors of
his generation; recent distinctions include the
2014 Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement
Award for the Elevation of Music in Society
from the Longy School, 2013 Musical America’s
Musician of the Year and induction into
Gramophone Hall of Fame, 2010 Eugene
McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, 2009
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and
one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential
people, 2008 Q Prize from Harvard, along with
several honorary doctorates.
Gustavo Dudamel was born in Venezuela in
1981. Access to music for all has been the cornerstone of Gustavo’s philosophy both professionally and philanthropically.

CAMERON CARPENTER, ORGAN
Cameron Carpenter is having a ball smashing
the stereotypes of organists and organ music—
all the while generating worldwide acclaim and
controversy. His repertoire—from the complete
works of J. S. Bach to film scores, his original
works, and hundreds of transcriptions and
arrangements—is probably the most diverse of
any organist. He is the first organist ever nominated for a Grammy Award for a solo album.
Carpenter regularly appears as a soloist with
many of the world’s great orchestras, and signed
in 2013 an exclusive multi-album recording contract with Sony Classical. In 2014, he launched
his International Touring Organ—a monumental digital organ of his own design, playable
throughout the world—with two Lincoln
Center concerts and the release of the Sony
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album If You Could Read My Mind, and a 31concert tour to Europe, the U.S., and the UK.
As a keyboard prodigy, he performed Bach’s
Well-Tempered Clavier at age 11 before joining
the American Boychoir School in 1992 as a boy
soprano. During his four years of high school
studies at the North Carolina School of the
Arts, he made his first studies in orchestration
and orchestral composition, and transcribed for
the organ more than 100 major works, including
Gustav Mahler’s complete Symphony No. 5.
Cameron continued composing after moving to
New York City in 2000 to attend the Juilliard
School. While there, he composed art songs; the
symphonic poem Child of Baghdad (2003) for
orchestra, chorus, and ondes Martenot; his first
substantial works for solo organ; and numerous
organ arrangements of piano works by Chopin,
Godowsky, Grainger, Ives, Liszt, Medtner,
Rachmaninoff, Schumann, and others.
Cameron received a master’s degree from
Juilliard in 2006.
The same year, he began his worldwide organ
concert tours, giving numerous debuts at venues